8-letter words containing a, n, t, i, e
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- libelant — a person who libels, or institutes suit.
- ligament — Anatomy, Zoology. a band of tissue, usually white and fibrous, serving to connect bones, hold organs in place, etc.
- linament — (surgery) lint, especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
- linarite — a mineral, a complex basic sulfate of lead and copper, having a deep-blue color resembling that of azurite.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- line art — graphic material that consists of lines or areas of pure black and pure white and requires no screening for reproduction. Compare halftone (def 2).
- lineated — marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- litanies — Plural form of litany.
- luminate — (obsolete) To illuminate.
- magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- mangiest — Superlative form of mangy.
- manifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manliest — having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength or bravery.
- mantinea — an ancient city in S Greece, in Arcadia: battles 362 b.c., 223 b.c.
- mantises — Plural form of mantis.
- marinate — to steep (food) in a marinade.
- maronite — a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- martinet — a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- martinez — a town in W California.
- masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
- matinees — Plural form of matinee.
- matiness — sociable; friendly: a matey chat.
- meantime — the intervening time: The party is Tuesday, but in the meantime I have to shop and prepare the food.
- medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melanite — a deep black variety of andradite garnet.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metanoia — a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- miniated — Simple past tense and past participle of miniate.
- mint tea — infusion of mint leaves
- mintages — Plural form of mintage.
- minutiae — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- misagent — a bad agent
- misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
- mistaken — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- mitnaged — an orthodox opponent of Chassidism
- mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
- monazite — a reddish- or yellowish-brown mineral, a phosphate of cerium and lanthanum, (Ce,La)PO 4 : the principal ore of thorium.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- naartjie — (South Africa) Citrus reticulata, (mandarin, satsuma, tangerine); a soft, loose-skinned tangerine.
- nail set — a short rod of steel used to drive a nail below or flush with a surface.
- nartjies — Plural form of nartjie.
- nastiest — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- nathalie — a female given name.
- natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.